Don’t you understand there are search robots? they are liable for recognizing the updates on our web sites and notifying the search engines like google and yahoo about the same.

Want to know how to Chose perfect custom Robots header tags for Blogger? 


With the help of proper predefined tags, you can communicate with the crawlers to increase and decrease the search visibility. This is what we are going to explain in this post.

Purpose of Robots Header Tags and what these tags mean?


  • All – If you set this tag, crawlers are not bound by any constraints. They can freely crawl, index and expose your content.

  • Noindex – Not all the blogs are for public notice. Even if you don’t share the URL of your personal blog with anybody, chances are people will come to it from search results. In such a scenario, you can use noindex tag as it prevents search engines from indexing the pages.

  • Nofollow – Nofollow and dofollow tags are for outbound links. Dofollow is the default robot tag for all your outbound links. That means the search engines can sneak up on the pages you linked to. If you don’t want search bots to look through your links, the addition of a nofollow tag must help you.

  • None – none combines the features of both noindex and nofollow tags. The crawlers will neither index your pages nor skim through the links.

  • Noarchive – You might have noticed a cached label with most of the website links on SERPs. It shows that Google has captured a copy of your site into their server to display in case it goes down. That being said, the noarchive tag turns off the cached version in search pages.

  • Nosnippet – The text snippets in search results help people find what’s on the webpage. If you want to keep the content exclusive, you can turn this header tag on.

  • Noodp – Open Directory Project or Dmoz is a man-made directory of websites. Google uses the information from there sometimes. You can turn it off with this tag if you want to.

  • Notranslate – Do you want to disable translation on your site? Then use notranslate for the exact purpose.

  • Noimageindex – If you allow Google to index your images, people may steal it and use it on their own websites. To prevent that, you can keep the images deindexed using noimageindex tag. Also, Read this Image SEO guide.

  • Unavailable_after – In Blogger, you will get a field right to this tag. So, the webpage will be deindexed after this time.

How to Setup Custom Robots Header Tags In Blogger? Guide

Follow the steps given below to proceed with this.


  • Visit blogger.com and sign in to your account. 
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  • Then go to Settings >> Search preference. There you can see a setting called Custom robots header tags under Crawlers and Indexing. Click the Edit link to the right of it.

Crawlers and Indexing


  • At this step, you will notice two radio buttons. Obviously, the first one should be your pick.

Enable Custom Robots Header Tags


  • Now, you will get a set of checkboxes. But don’t get intimidated! It may feel like a complicated one, but it’s not. You can set them on your own by reading the “Custom Robots Header Tags and Purpose” once again. Or, just follow the same settings I chose (refer to the image given below) and hit Save changes.
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Note: We can set this up for the homepage, archive pages, and post pages as well. And, don’t tick noindex checkbox until and unless you are sure about it because doing the same will pull your website off from search engine result pages (SERPs).

Hurray! You have done this.